QueenH was due last Thursday so quite possible she's popped her bubbas out and is bonding with them as we speak! given it was twinnies she might have gone earlier than EDD - and is now trying to get her head around two new family members! hopefully she'll pop in soon and update us

my parents want to buy "one of the big items'' for the nursery. and i think my in-laws will want to as well. so that'll take the pressure off.
i don't have IL's but my parents said from the outset they wanted to buy us one big ticket item - which they also did for bro and SIL when they had their first. as DH and I had done a lot of research about what we were going to get, and i didn't want to dictate what my folks spent, i asked them to get a new carseat for their car. my eldest niece is almost 9 and the car seat they had was used for my cousin's kids first, so i know it's past it's "use by" date. they were fine with that. i figured they could set the budget as it was for their car and i know they'd get something appropriate. only a few days later, a car seat went on special at target for 149 instead of 300 so they grabbed that and then said they'd paid heaps less than expected, so when a portacot i'd mentioned to mum i liked was on special, they got that for us as well